The Versatility of Stories Through Haroun Khalifa’s adventure on the story moon of Kahani‚ Salman Rushdie discloses to readers the value of stories that are not even true. In Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories‚ the author illustrates how powerful and versatile fictional stories are to real life. From the colorful Ocean of the Streams of Stories to the conflicting Lands of Gup and Chup‚ Rushdie creates a world within the novel that undoubtedly and continually portrays the point of made-up tales
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Sea Story The short story Sea Story is written by A.S. Byatt in 2013. It is a story about the young Harold‚ who has a very significant relation to the nature especially to the sea. He falls in love with the beautiful woman Laura‚ but he does not reveal his love to her. Laura is leaving to study abroad and Harold is having a hard time without her‚ so he writes her a love letter in a bottle message‚ but the bottle does not get to the intended destination without being broken by the sea. In this
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Haroun and the sea of stories written by Salman Rushdie depicts the vital importance of storytelling through the adventures of a storyteller’s son‚ called Haroun. Haroun is on a quest to recover his fathers‚ rashind‚ renowned ability to weave a web of stories. Throughout his journey he comes across friends and foes who act in duality propelling him forward to a pleasing fairy-tale ending. The passage on page 71-72 is an exchange between Iff the water genie and Haroun about the ocean of the streams
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Use of Magic Realism The Russian novel‚ Master and Margarita‚ was written in an environment of strict government control in early twentieth century‚ where even the presence of the manuscript in the author’s own house was something to fear. Bulgakov is believed to have burned the manuscript‚ only to re-write it later from memory. He must have felt a writer’s responsibility to record the historic issues that contradicted the country’s regime and atheistic religious stance. In magic realism‚ many
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The Metamorphosis‚ written by Franz Kafka is a prime example of magic realism. Magic realism is a fictional technique that combines fantasy with raw‚ physical or social reality in a search for truth beyond that available from the surface of everyday life. Also‚ reality becomes deformed and it is difficult for the reader to perceive the essential truths and tell the difference between what is real and what is unreal. The story‚ "The Metamorphosis" is about Gregor‚ a workaholic‚ who is changed into
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Magic realism Magic realism (or magical realism) is a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The term was initially used by German art critic Franz Roh to describe painting which demonstrated an altered reality‚ but was later used by Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri to describe the work of certain Latin American writers. The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (a friend of Uslar-Pietri)
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Listen and Learn Once upon a time‚ long ago‚ Nortan‚ who was fatigued from his month long trip‚ was riding on his camel and decided that he would take a break. He dreamed about Jovempaz‚ the magical golden lamp hidden in the depths of the Arabian Desert. A sandstorm approached his spot and his camel yanked off the rope which was holding him to the tree and galloped off with all of Nortan’s supplies. Nortan was all alone. He had no compass. He had no map. He didn’t know where he was. He covered his
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technique that was the most interesting in Garcia Marquez’ novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ was his use of magic realism. One magical element in the book is the use of dreaming. Dreaming is a constant theme throughout the novel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold‚ presents the reader with characters that have dreams‚ as these dreams are the primary sources of events that come true. Magical realism is portrayed through dreams which are used in the novel to see the predicted future‚ as in most cases‚ the
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Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a novel that fits into many genres‚ including that of family saga‚ gothic and magic realism. Although we can see evidence of all these in the text‚ it is the conventions of magic realism which work well in the creation of meaning and the formation of parallels between the society depicted within the novel‚ and a contemporary Australian. Some key elements of magic realist novels are that they include the use of fantastical elements‚ extensive use of symbols and imagery
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or watching a television series‚ it is near assured that the protagonists are unfailingly the marvels. Haroun sets on a quest to Kahani to fulfill his father’s passion towards storytelling. He was honored for “the incalculable service you [he] has done to the people of Kahani and to the Ocean of the Streams of Story‚” (Rushdie 200). Terms such as “incalculable” and “to the people” emphasize Haroun is an upstanding character. The audience instinctively assume protagonists are true due to the indications
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